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Boulder-based data storage company SolidFire raises $31 million

Boulder-based data storage company SolidFire announced Wednesday that it has secured $31 million in series C funding, led by Samsung Venture Investment Corp.

The round, which takes SolidFire's total funding to $68 million, will allow the company to expand sales and marketing efforts worldwide.

The company was founded in 2009 and employs nearly 100.

It makes flash-based solid state storage systems that are used by cloud-service providers.

"We feel that SolidFire has very strong leadership of all-SSD Storage Platform in both public and private cloud computing markets," said Jay Chong, senior director at Samsung Ventures, in a statement.

SolidFire also announced Wednesday a new product, the SF9010, that's designed for large scale public and private cloud infrastructures.

"The SF9010 really highlights SolidFire's storage architecture in action," said SolidFire founder and CEO Dave Wright. "The system is incredibly flexible and is designed to consume the latest flash technology available. This enables us, and our customers, to keep pace with the rapid advances in the flash market and take advantage of falling cost and rising density."

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